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Adebolajo ‘showed no sign of regret or remorse’

Sean O’Neill

December 5 2013, 12:01am, The Times

The Old Bailey was told that Michael Adebolajo had shown no regrets or remorse in the days after the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby.

Mr Adebolajo, 28, was visited three times by Tim McInerney, a consultant forensic psychiatrist, while he was being treated at King’s College Hospital for gunshot wounds inflicted by armed police after the killing. The defendant had been born in the same hospital in December 1984.

Oliver Glasgow, for the prosecution, said that Mr McInerney had concluded that Mr Adebolajo showed “no signs or symptoms of mental disorder” at any point and that he had “presented no signs of regret or remorse for his actions”.

Mr Adebolajo told the psychiatrist that his actions had been “on the basis of his religious beliefs…